An ordinance amending the rules of decorum at the city’s public meetings will go before the Vallejo City Council on Tuesday.

The Vallejo City Council will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, inside the Vallejo Room, located on the first floor of the John F. Kennedy Public Library, 505 Santa Clara St.

Applying to all public meetings, including City Council, commission, and board meetings, the amendment to Chapter 2 of the Vallejo Municipal Code would require all members of the public not to engage in “disorderly or boisterous conduct, including but not limited to applause, whistling, stamping of feet, booing, or making any loud, threatening, profane, abusive, personal, impertinent, or slanderous utterance that disturbs, disrupts, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting.”

The ordinance would also require public members to address the presiding officer of the meeting and not the public (of those in attendance) and a councilmember, board or commission member.

In addition, signs, banners, or similar items would not be allowed if obstructs the views of others in the meeting, or disrupts the meeting.

“All persons attending a Public Meeting shall remain seated in the seats provided, unless addressing the body at the podium or entering or leaving the meeting,” the amendment states. “All persons attending a Public Meeting shall obey any lawful order of the Presiding Officer to enforce the Rules of Decorum.”

Finally, no person would be allowed to approach the dais when the City Council is in session, “unless specifically requested to do so by the presiding officer.”

The amendment would also create an enforcement mechanism for the presiding officer to ask a person, in violation of the decorum rules, to leave the meeting, and/or have any law enforcement officer no duty to remove the person.

“In the event that any meeting is willfully interrupted by a group or groups of persons so as to render the orderly conduct of such meeting unfeasible and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting, the members of the legislative body conducting the meeting may order the meeting room cleared and continue in session,” the amendment states.

Members of the news media not participating in the disturbance would be allowed to remain in the meeting. The council has the power to readmit an individual or groups not part of the disturbance, the amendment reads.

Councilors will also review an ordinance amending the same chapter in the municipal code clarifying the role of members and which use of rules of order the city will use.